Since ancient times, the path of the enlightened warrior has been a powerful and inspiring ideal, showing us how we can master the challenges of life and draw power not from violence or aggression but through the cultivation of gentleness, courage, and self-knowledge. The Shambhala book and card set offers readers a unique and accessible way to put the principles of the sacred warrior to practice in daily life through a series of slogans or maxims that emphasize facing the world with openness and fearlessness. Through these teachings, readers can start to gain personal freedom and power, overcome negative habitual patterns, find the sacred dimension of everyday life, and discover the basic goodness of human life.

The box includes:

53 four-color cards, with a Shambhala warrior slogan on one side and commentary from the Tibetan Buddhist master Ch÷gyam Trungpa on the reverse side.

- A fold-out card stand

- An 16-page booklet with instructions on how the slogans can be applied to one's own life throughout the day

- A 256-page unabridged edition of Trungpa's classic book Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior The majority of the slogans and commentary are drawn from Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior . The remainder of the slogans, which have never before been available to a general audience, were composed by Chogyam Trungpa to be used in Shambhala Training, a program that he developed as a way to train people in the path and practice of warriorship.

Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist universit